I punched through a dozen or so and 100% of those were rhetorical.<p>You need to combine it with some NLP like Kevin's doing here: <a href="http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/" rel="nofollow">http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/</a>
I got 5 questions in a row like 'Do you want to meet there at that time?' which were direct twitter messages to specific people. This needs more filtering as others have commented.<p>It bugs me to see this on TechCrunch and HN when there are great submissions that did not get such opportunity (example: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804373" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804373</a>).
Very impressive Maarten.<p>I especially like your localisation efforts! The unique URL's fitting for each language are amazing. Do you feel this is a big boon to spread fast? Are you yourself a good speaker of those languages, or did you ask external help for the translations/domain name suggestions?
I really like the idea. 30 seconds is intense and turns it into a game. A way to "cheat" is to hit reply and if you aren't signed into Twitter a window pops up with whatever you have typed in so far and gives you an infinite amount of time to finish your response.<p>I answered 1/1 questions and it was about vibrato when singing. Now I'm having a discussion about it. Happy to help this person learn to improve their technique.
Great idea and execution.<p>Still, I'd really recommend ditching the ad at the bottom and focusing on perhaps a single call-to-action, like following on Twitter or liking on Facebook. I know it's tempting to try and monetize something like this but overall the ads and share buttons just kind of junk it up.
Both the idea, and how fast it all came together, is awesome. Great job!<p>I wonder what twitter's reaction will be if this keeps growing, considering all the recent talk about them being hostile towards people making the most out of their API.
So how did you build it? What programming language, what tools? Where hosted? This is a very impressive project for only one day of work, so give us the details.
Great idea! Keyboard shortcuts for the interface would be really nice, since I end up "nexting" a lot of questions before I tend to find one I want to answer.
nice to see this idea being picked up again. I had a similar idea quite a while ago (early 2010), although I didn't build it on top of the twitter API (which in retrospect might have been better). <a href="http://askcue.com" rel="nofollow">http://askcue.com</a> is still online and you can anonymously ask questions. btw. it seems that the site doesn't work atm.
nice idea but right now the implementation is full of fail. I got 5 questions, none of which I could answer (directed at their friends / rhetorical) and then I got asked if "this was fun" and to tweet about youasked.it<p>Please make sure that the user actually answers a single question before asking them to tell their friends how much fun they're having.
really liked it. just one thing: i'm not a native english speaker, so it takes me a little more time to tweet an answer. would be nice to have the timer to halt when typing...
you should define some filters for the target repliers and to notice that is a real question. e.g. #q.code.java .<p>Listeners/repliers would subscribe those.
pretty fun for trolling strangers tbh<p>i didn't come across one serious question though. just a bunch of random nonsense 'where do we go when we die??' 'should i go to sleep???' etc